Example sentences of "for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An English critic who attempted the task of keeping a balance between his political convictions and his aesthetic responses was John Berger , who wrote in the 1950s for the New Statesman . |
| 2 | Additionally , the cataloguer will be sure to make comparisons , which will be useful to the reader , for the format is one of the few in which a generous number of illustrations can be included . |
| 3 | As you become interested in film acting it is likely that you will also become interested in film making , for the actor 's work depends so much on the technical decisions of the director and editor . |
| 4 | Others resented Dr Browne 's tactics , for the church was clearly not to be brought into such public disrepute . |
| 5 | For the cold is their element . |
| 6 | For the gesture of revolt begs for understanding . |
| 7 | It can be quite painful , for the insider is studying his own social navel , with the potential always present that he will recognize this to be only one of a number of arbitrary possibilities and perhaps also find that many practices are built on the flimsiest of moral precepts . |
| 8 | This attack was repeated again in 1987 in the Federation magazine , for the report had obviously hit a very raw nerve . |
| 9 | And here the problem really begins , for the ethnographer must explore beyond the public presentation of self , to seek the underlying discourses of police reality . |
| 10 | In the main , the college has produced little radical comment or research of note during the four decades of its existence , for the various chief officers have jealously ensured that any consolidation of ideological excellence at this location has been neutered , and under Home Office direction its senior courses have primarily been used to provide a stream of suitably acquiescent candidates for the ACPO ranks , who readily take on the symbols and metaphors of dominance which feed the appetite for power Stead warns against . |
| 11 | In extreme cases anthropologists have found such a role impossible to live with , for the field situation was beyond their previous imaginations . |
| 12 | For the legal process demands that incidents and occurrences be ideally fixed in time and space . |
| 13 | During my relatively short period as a city detective , I was implicitly aware that quality had to be sacrificed to quantity , for the ‘ arrest list ’ was checked monthly and the numerical totals counted . |
| 14 | Once again the language is vital to the analysis , for the term ‘ juggling ’ is widely used in relation to detection rates and carries with it an understanding that what is happening belongs to a world where movement conceals as often as it reveals . |
| 15 | In this instance , established authority and its police were set to oppose the threat posed by this new anti-structure , for the counter-culture renounced power and society feared their challenge , as it has feared the unworldly in every age . |
| 16 | It is similarly tempting to think of the colour image as hovering in the background , somehow anticipated by the mind ; but this is a metaphor , for the image either is or is not in consciousness . |
| 17 | For the causal relations of events would be just the same irrespective of whether or not the causal chain temporarily took on a mental aspect ( as in property dualism ) or ( as in substance dualism ) ‘ went mental ’ for a while . |
| 18 | For the richness of morse code is a borrowed richness . |
| 19 | Only now mattered , for the present moment was so filled with beauty that it smothered the effort of climbing , and with every gasp of breath came a physical response to the glory of the day . |
| 20 | For the novelist works to one side — hence parajournalist — of the writer busy with magazine polemics in Time and Epoch , just as his novel exists to one side — parajournalism — of the double murder in the newspapers and of scary sciencefictionish forewarnings about microbes . |
| 21 | Swinburne is alluded to , here as elsewhere , by the place-name ‘ Le Portel ’ , where — so Pound seems to have believed ( wrongly , for the name is ‘ Yport ’ ) — Swinburne on a famous occasion was saved from drowning by French fishermen . |
| 22 | For the remainder of the week General Yazov will visit army , navy , air force and marine bases in California , Arizona and North Carolina . |
| 23 | For the Scots do not like their women tough and authoritarian . |
| 24 | For the fact is that the Christians now hold a power out of proportion to their numbers , thanks to the French . |
| 25 | Banned or not , strikes will happen , for the population is beyond the stage when harsh words will cow it into submissiveness . |
| 26 | For the diagnosis of child sexual abuse is , she says , a process . |
| 27 | This ‘ mob comedy ’ is an especial disappointment , for the credentials look promising on paper : it 's directed by Susan Seidelman ( Desperately Seeking Susan ) and co-written by Nora Ephron ( Silkwood , Heartburn ) . |
| 28 | The noise is formidable , for the rocks clatter and bang away down a steel chute that dumps them back on the ground . |
| 29 | The difference , and the difficulty , for the television reporter is that he inevitably becomes a partner in this process of suppression . |
| 30 | The herring was to the Eastern European Jew what potatoes were to the Irish , which is surprising , for the herring is a salt-water fish and in Russia and Poland one rarely got a glimpse of the sea . |